London: Macmillan, 1972. Hard Cover. 8vo. 318 p.p.Eight unnumbered pages B&W photographs, some B&W maps. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Rubbing to spine ends and corners. Dust jacket has some light wear to edges and corners. Pictorial map endpapers, bookplate to half title and ink ownership inscription..... More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. First edition, full number line. Quarter black cloth with black paper boards, gold lettering to spine. xviii, 458 p.p. [14] p.p. B&W photographs. Dust jacket has some bumping to extremities, else fine. In this book, Jonathan Alter, one of..... More
San Francisco: Miller Freeman Books, 1999. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. xii, 274 p.p. B&W photos throughout. Includes discography. Quarter-bound in black cloth with purple paper boards, gilt lettering to spine and front board. Damp stain to foot of rear endpapers. Dust jacket is slightly bumped at extremities, damp stains..... More
s.l. [Sierra Leone?]: Self Published, 1980. Soft Cover. 8vo. Soft cover. 225 pp, [8 pp] plates of B&W photos. Erratum printed to lower inside rear cover. A few stains to covers, wear to spine (with some loss to author's name at foot). A few stains to interior. Around the 1890s..... More
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Inc., 2007. Hard Cover. 8vo. xiii, 342 p.p. Cloth. Foreword by Joan Rivers. No marks to dust jacket. Light bumping to spine ends of boards. Title page signed by author. Clean, a fine copy of book. More
London: Rockliff, 1951. 1st English Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. Belgian Art Monographs series. Translated from the French by M.H.C. Willems. First published by the Ministry of Education (Belgium) and Uitgeverij de Sikkel, Antwerp, 1947. Full red cloth, gold lettering. 16 pp. [1] colour frontis., [1] plate B&W portrait of Ensor..... More
Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 1989. Hard Cover. 8vo. Quarter black cloth, black paper boards, gilt lettering to spine. xii, 304 p.p., [16] p.p. B&W photos. Sunning to top edge of boards. Dust jacket has some bumping to extremities, dent to rear cover. This biography tells the story of how the remarkable..... More
New York: The Free Press, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo (large). Orig. dark blue cloth, xi, 483pp. Illustrated. Lower corners bumped, o/w near fine in d/w, front inner flap clipped (text partially affected). A biography of Stanford White, who 'transfored the architecture of America's Northeast.'. More
New York: Crown Publishers, 2010. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. First edition stated, full number line Black paper boards with gold lettering to spine. viii, 343 p.p., [8] p.p. colour photographs. Dust jacket has a few scuffs and bumpes to extremities, some light chafing to rear, else fine. Versace: the..... More
Hoo, Rochester, Kent: Grange Books, 2005. Da Vinci, Leonardo. Soft Cover. 4to. Soft cover. 192 p.p. Copiously illustrated. Slight curl to front cover. Near fine condition. Leonardo Da Vinci's desire for accuracy and realism in his work drove him to take an almost forensic approach to recording the world around..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1937. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. 18mo. The Cambridge Miscellany Series. 105 p.p., [1]. Maroon cloth boards with gilt titling to spine. Spine ends and corners are bumped and rubbed, damp stain to rear board. Top edge maroon. Dust jacket is lightly foxed, worn, several chips, reinforced..... More
Toronto: ECW Press, 1997. Hard Cover. 8vo. 237 p.p. White cloth binding with red titling to spine. Some scuffs to boards. Dust jacket lightly sunned at head and spine. B&W photos.Text clean, spine tight. More
Florence, Italy: Edizioni Internazionali, 1987. 1st English Edition. Hard Cover. 4to. SIGNED with inscription from the artist to recto of copyright page, with embossed stamp of Mazzone. First English edition. Brown leatherette boards with gilt lettering to spine and upper front board. 83 p.p., [3]. Illustrated in colour and B&W..... More
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth, 152pp. Illustrated. Fine in d/w. Jacket clipped and bit worn and edges. Biography of Linda Gray, actress from the popular show "Dallas." More
London: Hutchinson of London, 1965. Soft Cover. 8vo. Uncorrected proof copy on proofing paper. Orange paper wraps with black lettering, sewn and glued binding. Creasing and bubbling to spine, else fine. In dust jacket. 259 p.p. Dust jacket bumped and creased at extremities, small chips to spine ends. Wear to..... More
Quebec: Musee Du Quebec, 1986. Hard Cover. 4to. xv, 199 p.p. Cloth. Photographs throughout. Endpapers designed with a portrait of Louis Jobin. Small tear to top of jacket spine. No marks to boards. Fine copy of book. More
Burlington, Ontario: Spiritwood Press, 2000. Soft Cover. 8vo. Soft cover. XI, 269 pp. B&W photos in-text. Fine. The memoirs of Canadian construction businessman Spike Bermingham, whose family business has long been involved in important marine and rail construction projects in Ontario. More
New York: Frederick Fell Publishers, Inc. Hardcover. 8vo. [1981]. Orig. red cloth, xv, 296pp. Illustrated. About fine in near fine but faded d/w with small tears at extremiities and front inner flap clipped. "It is hoped that the biographies contained herein will give the reader insight into the personalities of..... More
London: Peter Owen Limited, 1951. Hard Cover. 8vo. xxii, 422 p.p. Cloth. Illustrations. Discolouration to spine ends and corners of dust-jacket. Tears to ends of dust-jacket. Bumping to boards, extremities. Bookplate of C.B. Farrar on front pastedown endpaper. Notes in blue ink to head of rear pastedown. Price clipped. Overall..... More
Montreal: Musee Des Beaux-Arts De Montreal, 1990. Hard Cover. 4to. French. 223 p.p. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine and front board. Boards lightly sunned at edges. Fully illustrated dust jacket has some light sunning to edges of flaps, else fine. Pictorial endpapers. Copiously illustrated, many in colour..... More
London: Burke, 1963. Hard Cover. 12mo. Modern Men of Action Series. Full red cloth. 191 pp. Light bumping to spine ends and corners, else fine. Dust jacket is price clipped, chipped at head, short tears to head and foot of rear, small perforation to spine. This is the story of..... More
London: Collins, 1946. First Edition. Orig. red cloth, 320pp. Frontispiece. Front inner hinge starting, Some scratches to lower front board, light bruising to spine and corners o/w very good in very good but soiled d/w, small chips to edges and extremities. Edmund Blunden [1896-1974 was an English poet and critic..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Soft Cover. 8vo. Oxford World's Classics. lvi, 507 p.p., [13 p.p. ads]. Paperback. Light rubbing to edges, long red scuff to rear cover, pages lightly tanned. This is the first anthology to gather British imperial writing alongside native and settler literature in English. Interweaving stories..... More
San Francisco: Sybil City Book Company, 2008. Khavarani, Kamran. Second Edition. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Collectors Edition. In matching pictorial slipcase, with shrinkwrap. Original jacket and yellow cloth binding. xv, [2], 18-300 p.p. Signed by Kamran Khavarni on the title page in gold marker to Dwayne..... More